We're not a communist country, Mr. Ambassador
Whatever you're thinking..
I'm not concerned about the communism
I'm concerned about our trade agreement
And the sanctions which are right now
being prepared in Washington DC
to be imposed against you
Oh, is that a threat?!
No, it's a reality
I thought you boys wanted to watch the sunrise
This is no fun
Maybe we shouldn't talk about politics right now
Do you guys hear something?
What the heck is going on here?
What the heck is that?!
Fitch
US Ambassador, Arnold Regis
was assassinated this morning
Along with a top Venezuelan diplomat he was with
Someone blew up their boat
I need you to get down to Orinoco River
in the Amazon base immediately
Colonel Antonio Diaz is running
The investigation from Pueno Ayacucho
About 20 down river from the explosion
He's claiming it was terrorists
The CIA thinks it could be the start
of an Anti-American military coup
I need you to the check out that river bottom
and tell me what really happened
before we have another Afghanistan on our hands
Do whatever it takes,
and do it fast
And Fitch...
Yes sir?
Good luck
Thanks
We're close
Very close
Monroe, look!
We need to get a piece of that to brief
to the lab immediately
Chemical compounds on the boat
are identical to the L23 mutation strain
The diameter of this marks
are significantly wider than a normal job
How much wider?
At least 4 times
It has to be them.
They must be doubling their size every few days
No...
they are growing exponentially
If this is correct
they may be doubling in size every 36 hours
See if you can pull a decent DNA sample off the boat
We have to contact Colonel Diaz immediately
It is imperative all river traffic must be stopped
I've already told Colonel Diaz,
he won't listen
All he cares about
is keeping people out of that jungle
And you know why
Look...
if you want to keep this lab opened
You have to keep your theories to yourself
How much time until the piranhas
hit their next magnitude?
24 hours. At the most...
Then we need to stop them before that
Jason Fitch, US State Department
Sorry my Spanish is worst
I'm here to meet Colonel Diaz
Come on
They sent out from the State Department right?
About that boat that's destroyed this morning?
No comment
Please stop
My name is Sarah Monroe
I'm a genetics professor from UCLA
I've been working with the ISF
for the past 2 years on a hydro biological experiment
Hydro-biological? What does that have to do...
We increase the local food supply by genetically
redesigning certain species of fish
to make them more robust
I was in charge of the Serrasalminae,
more commonly known as the piranha
I really don't have time to talk about this right now...
Colonel Diaz, I know
Please listen
One of my test groups the L23
are specially bred through large strain
That I labeled Serrasalminae Gigantus
They became uncontrollable and had to be terminated
However I do believe
that they are either been stolen
or they've escaped
And they are now breeding in the wild
This is a problem for the fishing game industry
You don't get it!
They ate those people
They ate the whole darn boat!
And if we don't do something in the next 24 hours
They're going to grow and grow and grow
And take everything out in their path
Diaz thinks I'm crazy
Here, take my card
Come to the lab and see for yourself
It's a piece of the hull
Maybe you can convince Diaz better than I have
Okay, alright
And be careful.
He's a close-minded paranoid son of a witch
Come on
Goods from China, are good
We don't need the United States anymore.
Senor Fitch, welcome to the Amazon
Listen, on behalf of my country
I wish to express my deepest sympathy
and I assure you
that the criminals responsible for this
Will be put to justice
I reserved you a private room here on our base
I had plan to stay in the hotel Colonel
Nonsense
This way, I know exactly where you are
I'm not a ballistic expert but...
I can't detect any carbon,
sulfur or heat of any kind
Right over here, where the wood isn't torn,
Has anyone suggest that this boat
was attacked by animals?
Animals
You mean like alligators?
Maybe like a group of animals working together?
So...
that's who you were talking to the airport ha?
That crazy American scientist ha?
Well, she has nothing to do with it
All she wants is money
Let me tell you something
This salvation were made
after the explosion, Okay?
From some fish,
gnawing at the carbon
I need to dive the river right away
Told Secretary Grady that I would
Well...
we don't want to disappoint Secretary Grady,
would we?
No, Colonel, we wouldn't
I make sure I fly you there immediately
Lead the way
We are approaching the location
of the boat's last radio transmission
When are we going to land?
We're not going to land
This is the jungle, Mr. Fitch
As far as the eyes can see,
there's no place to land
Then why the heck are we in a helicopter, Colonel?
I need to dive that river right away
Find the defilade,
find out whether it's an explosion or animal attack
It was an explosion
This area is now off limits
Anything to be done here,
will be done by myself
My country needs answer, Colonel
Your country, what about my country?
You Americans come here
treat us like we're from a third world country
Like we're children
We can take care of ourselves!
We're not children, Senor Fitch!
And you can tell Grady that for me
"Entire American protest said that"
"the street of Venezuela this afternoon"
"Follow the assassination that US ambassador, Arnold Regis"
"the primary architect to panel controversial American free trade condition"
"No group has yet claim responsible for the attack"
Screw this
You take me up river
Let's go
What is going on down there?
They just pulled me out of a meeting
Colonel Diaz has asked me to remove you from the case
And he wants you gone by this afternoon
There's something going on with Colonel Diaz
that has nothing to do with that boat
That's the river itself
Maybe a submerged mine,
or animal attack
Maybe gators, or fish
Fish?
Yeah, fish
American scientist down here
suggested a group of piranha
Alright...
you just keep doing what you're doing
But send me the report immediately
Yes sir
I'll fend off Colonel Diaz,
tell him I can't get you out until tomorrow
Thank you sir
And Fitch
That doesn't give you much time
So get on it
Look, if I'm not back here in 20 minutes,
I want you to call Secretary...
On 2nd thought,
here 20 minutes
Call this woman, Okay?
If I'm not back, 20 minutes
Thank you No problem.
What the heck!
Yeah, Secretary Grady
I figured it out
It wasn't an explosion
It wasn't terrorist
It was giant piranha
Yes sir, giant piranha
I know...
I will, I'll keep you informed
Yes sir. Thank you sir
So...
think a bunch of these can make a boat disappear?
What the heck is this?
Genetically modified piranha,
your terrorist
There's an inlet by the river,
there's a whole school of this thing
Boat wreckage everywhere
This creatures?
They're man-made?
The result of an failed experiment
I found them Colonel,
and all we need is figure out how to kill them
Here...
it's the exact coordinates of where they are
Latitude 5' 48 degrees North,
Longitude 67 degrees West
Now what I'm going to do is to take our fish here
to our crazy American scientist friend
She helped designed this thing
Maybe she can figure out a way to exterminate them
Oh, Secretary Grady didn't tell you
I'm not leaving today
Have a nice day, Colonel
Knock...
Little present for you guys
Oh my god
That's the sample we needed
Stinks incredible
Gordon
I need you to get me a projection of the size,
ratio data
We need to establish migration patterns
I'm on it
Are there any of these things left?
Yeah, maybe hundreds
I think they were trapped
Trapped by what?
Let me show you. I took a picture
Here.
It's a natural dam
separating the piranha from the rest of the river
Well, that's good...
When they get any bigger
they would break right through that thing
Okay fine, put a wire and electrocute them
No...
that's untested results can could cause
reproduction, additional mutation
Massive growth
Any number of things
Okay fine, let's poison them, drop some acid in there
No...
You know, there's only one way to do this
We have to reinforce the dam, with concrete slabs
We drain the estuary
The L23 Serrasalminae Gigantus
will suffocate
We'll drown them
The only other option will be hitting them
with much more firepower that we're going to find around here
I think you better see this
This has at least half a dozen new organs
Look, 2 hearts, triple thick skin
and it's a hermaphrodite
It breeds on its own
This is Fitch
Listen Fitch, you have to get back to the base immediately
Diaz is up to something
What?
We're not sure
But whatever it is, it's big
Okay-
I'm on my way up there right now
And let those scientist to figure out a way to kill those piranhas
Do what you can. Yes sir
And report back I'll keep informed
I have those projections you asked for
You better see this
Right now, the piranha are in one spot
if they migrate down the Orinoco,
and the other rivers
This is what happens
12 hours
24 hours
36 hours
By 48, they reach the Mississippi
I'm going
Fitch!
What?
You need to convince Colonel Diaz
to start reinforcing that dam tonight
Before these things get any bigger
I'm coming with you, we'll take my car
Follow me, just don't talk
Good, we need to speak to him too
She's diplomat Americano,
very important to the case
That was smooth
Colonel...
I need to talk to you
Who is she?
The scientist from the yesterday
I told you about Sarah Monroe
We spoke over the phone many times, I think
So that was you
Well strap yourself in,
we're in for a bumpy ride
Where are we going Colonel?
To a secluded inlet
You've convinced me Senor Fitch
You're not going to bomb them, are you?
Of cos I would, I'm a soldier
We need you to build the wallm reinforce the dam,
and drain the estuary
There's no time to build the wall
I'm going to kill these things myself
This thing ends tonight?
But these choppers don't have enough firepower Colonel
Give me 15 hours
I can have US Estuary
with enough firepower to kill all those darn fish
It's working
The missiles are killing them
Get the rest of the helicopters up in the air right now!
Drop the rest of the missiles, now!
We can't do this.
Congratulations, Fitch
You know this one had me really worried
Reports up here showed massive casualties
along the entire river
Those creatures were put down fast
Thank you, sir
Diaz quarantined the whole area off
There's a couple of scientists
from Professor Monroe's lab are down there now
Trying to make sure that the Colonel
killed all those things
Good, let's close this case
The Venezuelan government is not happy
And there's talk about closing that laboratory,
arresting everyone of those scientists
But, that's crazy!
Those scientists were trying to help us
I know, I'm doing everything I can
I'm flying down to Caracas tonight
to smooth things out at the capital
Relations are bad to say the least
Listen, you keep Diaz happy
Don't make any waves
and hopefully by tomorrow night,
we'll both be heading back home
Hope so, sir
I'll do my best
Ha, Senor Jason Fitch
Salute...
I hope your time here is well spent, ha
So they tell me you're leaving in the morning, eh?
Yes, Colonel
Secreatary Grady's happy
Trust me, I'll be more than happy
to get out of here
What happened to that little girlfriend of yours, eh?
She'll be along in a little while
Is she unhappy that
her little creatures are gone?
Nah, I can't imagine that
Have you been to this laboratory of hers?
Cos you know, I think I'd like to see it
There's nothing much
I see
You like her
But maybe she's got some other experiments
that might go wrong, eh?
Would you say this is a helpful thing you do here?
Yes, of course!
Our most successful project feed
30% of the people in this country
Successful projects?
What about your unsuccessful projects, eh?
Well, Colonel, there's only been one
Colonel Diaz, the scientists here are trying to help you
And we're sanctioned by the United Nations
Ah well, the United Nations
How charitable
These American scientists
have been conducting illegal scientific experiments
in my country
You understand?
My country!
This facility is now closed!
Move about the doors, and the windows
I need you to go
Take my car and go!
I'm not leaving without you
You're no good to everyone if you get arrested
Now go!
Colonel Diaz, you can't do this!
I know who you are
I know what you do in the jungle
Arrest her!
They down here. Arrest them.
Get Fitch too!
Higgins, I've collected 46 dead L23s,
and there's a few left on the surface
And that's not nearly enough
And I've got only 35 specimens so far
You're absolutely right
There's no way we got them all
Hey look, I got to get out of here
I see one of Diaz's gunboats coming
I got to get out of here
Higgins!
30"}!
It's me, you safe
You scared the darn outta me!
Diaz's men have been chasing me all night
I think I lost them
How's the dam hold up?
It's totally blown apart
Nothing's holding them in anymore
It's no wonder they escaped
Diaz is using grenades
and machine guns to kill them
We need a full blown assault
Come on!
We can't help him.
Nothing yet, sir
They're still in there
According to the reports,
Diaz is planning to move them
to an unknown location shortly
Do not lose them
This is a real mess, Fitch
And those fish are still out there
Did you hear about the attack last night?
Yes, sir
20 men, entire gunboat
Diaz claims...
CIA plot to take over his country
and Caracas is just along for the ride
So I'm conducting a diplomacy
at the ISB installation 60 miles north of Aruba
You've got to keep those scientists safe, Fitch
And get them here
They are the only ones who know how to kill those fish
Yes sir, I'll do my best sir
I don't know what you mean
I mean that the 3 of you
are conducting illegal scientific experiments
And making up stories about me!
In order to cover up, eh?!
That's ridiculous
Believe me
when you get to the Giana Prison district
Things are going to get a lot worse
Look, I don't care what you do
I don't care who you work for
I don't care if you're cartel
Then sign that document!
Sign it!
Say that you're pan of the CIA
and all of your colleagues are pan of the CIA!
You don't get it
We have to stay here
and kill those piranhas
Before they get so big, you can't stop them
Oh my god! What did they do to you?!
I'll be fine
Stay there, don't move.
Come on, let's go
This way, there's the car. Move!
I'm going to get you to the US Embassy fast!
Get in!
It's the harbor
We have to go there now!
Come on
Come on... hurry...
Oh my god!
Come on... Let's go!
Come on... keep going...
The Serrasalminae are bigger
The piranha are heading towards the ocean
We might be able to catch them
I just go through that way
I'm going to do more test on mark
Alright, be careful
What's that do?
It's detects fish sonar, so that I can get a direction
This breed is going to keep moving
How are there still so many of them
We blew the hell of these things last night
Look, their gestation period is only 6 hours
They absorb nutrients directly through their skin
So they just grow and multiply
As if they're composed completely of stem cells
from Serrasalminae zygotes
Stay here
Are you okay?
I've tested it 3 times
These fish are definitely
heading North East towards the ocean
That's good, that helps us
We got to warn all the beach resorts along the coast
Piranha are fresh water fish,
they can't breed in salt water
They'll never go near it
Soon as they reach the mouth of that river
With that salt water, it will be hit like a brick wall
Good, now we know exactly where to hit them
They're going to be trapped
They're not going to get away this time
No Sarah... he's gone...
We need to go to the embassy
Embassy? I'm not going to an embassy!
We're going to follow the piranha right down to the river
Find someone, anyone to kill them, and bomb them
I just want to kill them all!
Move! Come on, go!
Come on!
Guys, I've worked on the size of these things
Based on the fish that escaped last month
and the ones we collected last night
and the huge ones we saw today
And?
Based on my calculations, these things are doubling in size
In half of the time we expected
And doubles again in each one cycle
Okay. How about that means something?
They will reach the size of a horse
by the time they reach the mouth of the river
8 hours after that, a rhinoceros
4 hours later, an elephant, then a whale
According to these,
I don't see any point at which they'll stabilize
Secreatary Grady
What in the heck is going on down there, Fitch?
There's a warrant for your arrest
We just witnessed a massive attack, sir
The entire harbor was destroyed
And we lost Dr. Higgins
Let me know what you need, I'll see what I can do
I need you to bombard the mouth of the Orinoco River, sir
Heavy orders everything you've got
Right where the fresh water meet the salt
That's where the piranha will be in a few hours
Bombard the river mouth?
Are you out of your god darn mind?!
For open the Venezuela is a sovereign nation
And what am I at, whose diplomatic relationship with us
is not doing very well at the moment
I understand that sir
but if we don't hit these things now, hard
They're going to grow, and breed and spread
Up and down this coast till there's nothing left!
This is our one chance to do this, sir
Alright...
I'm going to send you a link to our satellite feed
that's been tracking your giant piranhas
Do you need a GPS?
I have one
I'll also send a ship to the river mouth, but just to observe
At 0950 hours, you send in a personal distress SOS,
and that ship will response outside of official jurisdiction
Maybe that way we can avoid starting World War Ill
Yes, sir. Hour 15, I've got it
Fitch, that ship must be just passing by
He can't wait for you
That SOS must be set it exactly 0950,
otherwise that window is lost
How long does it take to the coast?
About 2 hours?
Yeah I got to do it a lot shorter than that
I'll hang on if I was you
Is that a checkpoint ahead?
You two get down and stay down
Guys, make yourselves invisible
Guys, we've got someone following us, hang on
Where?
On our six
Our six? What?
Behind us
I recognize that SUV, it's Diaz
Hang on!
Secreatary, the USS St. Harper
will be within fire range from the river mouth in 36 minutes
Come on Fitch
Hang on!
Go faster!
We could if we have a faster car
I'll try to lose them in the city
You two get down
This just got real
Okay, looks like I lost them
Stay down until I make sure though
Get out of the car, even you Senor Fitch
I don't want to hurt you
I just want you to clear our names
This way, let's go!
We're entering the firing range window captain
Has the call come in?
Not yet, sir
How much time do we have before we're out of range?
1 minute
The piranha aren't here yet.
They're going to be here any second
Okay, get back
Here they come
They are only going to be trapped
between the fresh water and salt water for a few minutes
Now's the time to hit them
I'm trying... this thing almost at adjust
45 seconds and counting captain
They're going to be helpless if we don't get that call soon
SOS, repeat SO...
Darn, the battery's dead
Suck on the battery,
the enzyme in your saliva will give you 10% extra charge
We don't want to hurt you!
We just need you to help us stop the killing!
Come on Fitch, come on
Where the heck are you?
How much time that's left?
20 seconds!
You can still clear our names
Working together for our people
You don't surrender,
I'll be forced to shoot you as spies!
5 seconds
Now!
SOS repeat, SOS.
We're at the river mouth, under attack.
Request immediate assistance
It's a go
USS St. Harper... it's a go...
The call's in, sir
Fire forward guns
Do you see the river mouth?
The salt water's working
Serrasalminae won't go near it
I got to get down there to see
You alright?
Let's go
Are they all dead?
Let me check the water
Be careful
There's not a sound
I don't detect a single piranha, not here, not upriver
I think it has killed them
I hate to break up this tender moment,
but it's not safe here
Let's go
Through these trees
They're headed for the beach
Let's send 2 helis to pick them up
Yes, sir
We move along this beach,
head up the coast
I can get our needs back from there
This should be easy to investigate
Oh no...
They can live in the ocean?!
What the heck is that?
Reverse engine!
Ready to drop the charges!
Drop the charges!
Rifle rudder!
All men! Prepare to abandon ship!
USS St. Harper is destroyed.
Piranhas are in the ocean and on the move
God help us all
They're just going to keep growing...
and there's nothing we can do about it
There's nothing we can do...
There's just nothing we can do about this
Hey... I need you 100%,
you're the only one who can help me stop these things.
Okay?
Come on. Let's go
You too Gordon, move out
Wait here
Where are you going?
I'm going to get us a helicopter
Stay down
Let's get to the chopper
Hurry!
I hope you do know how to fly one of these things
I do, it's just a little bit different. Hold on
I think we're being followed
I see them. The piranhas are headed to the ocean
Any place they won't go?
Well they don't sleep and they've place to step it and...
Hang on!
They're firing at us! I thought they wanted us alive!
Yeah, but things change
Come on
Turn...
Incoming
Shoot him!
Diaz is flying west
Good, let them.
We've got bigger problems to deal with
Which direction the piranhas is going?
Out. Straight to the ocean. To the east
Okay, we're going to head North
No. North? Why North?
We should go back to the shore then
It's all ocean
Why back there? To be arrested again?
No... there's a closer place we can go to
Besides we won't make it back to shore
Fuel line's leaking
Maybe I can break something
Good, we're going to need fuel guys
There's got to be something in here
Hope so, she would suck to die because we run out of gas
I got you into this mess
The least I can do is trying to get you out
There's an oxygen tank
I could use this
No... you can't use that
This is a combustion engine
It's gasoline, kerosene,
anything that can burn
Yeah, I know. I can make anything burn
Okay what you know,
please do it fast because we're going down!
Okay I've got it
Ready for the burst?
Hit it!
Screw science, you guys should be working for NASCAR
This is going to last a few minutes
That's okay, a few minutes is all I need
Look, there it is
What's that?
CIA Military installation, Western Hemisphere
Pretty sweet ah?
Hang on, we're going down
There are only 4 of these installations in the entire world
Each would houses about 200,000 refugees,
in case of an emergency
Emergency like what? Nuclear war?
A meteor, super-volcano blast
Oh ok. I get it
Thousand year big ice age
Welcome back sir
What are you? Some kind of bigwig?
Nah, I'm just a guy
The first thing we're going to do is meet
Secreatary Bob Grady and some others
They will ask you some direct questions,
just give them direct answers
Just think of everybody here is average, normal people
The longer we stand here,
the bigger the serrasalminae are getting
And if they decide to change direction,
this island is right in their path
We are in an impenetrable fortress, Professor
surrounded by aircraft carriers, and missile cruisers
I've seen what they could do to your missiles
We have a lot of firepower
Trust me, you don't have enough
And in a few hours,
you're going to need twice as much as you need right now
Yeah, you need to listen to her.
She's right
You need to hit these things hard and fast
with everything you've got right now
I agree with Professor Monroe
She's the expert, she knows the enemy
Now our experts are tracking the entire group
of giant piranha traveling in North East to due North
That puts them in Southern Florida by later this afternoon
So, what could we expect?
Will they stop?
Do they sleep?
No, these organisms are a very simply program
To create as much protein meat as possible
They eat, they grow, they multiple
And they will never ever stop
Oh we're going to stop them alright
But the Greenpeace won't like the way we do it
What does that mean?
We have a nuclear submarine
set to intercept the piranha in 1 hour
As soon as those creatures are far away from land,
we nuke them
20 kilo tones
Enough to wipe out New York City
If you want my opinion as a Greenpeace
I'd double that amount
Where are the piranhas now?
The satellites are tracking them as we speak
I have a visual
I'll put in the front screen
Godspeed
We'll be in prime position in any second
They should have double the kilotons
Target is in optimal range in 10 seconds
9,8,7
e, 5, 4,
a, 2,1
Lock on target
Fire!
Any sign of lives?
Nothing yet
Jesus
No... it's not possible
Tell that sub to get out from there.
Get out!
Remove yourself from the target path immediately!
I repeat!
What did he say?
It's not clear sir
Do we have a visual yet?
No captain, radioactivity is steering off sensors
Let's go up to the surface and see what's going on
I have a visual sir
Put her on screen
How long before they reach Southern Florida?
Less in a hour
Not enough time for an evacuation
I need a private line to the President
I'll take it in my room
Right away, sir
Excuse me
Mr. Secretary
What is it?
What you not telling us?
I've been authorized to a full nuclear assault
Maybe a 100 times of what we just saw
Enough to disintegrate the land, everything on it
Boil up all the water in and around the Florida pan